Today, the idea is tried and true, but imagine being a kid in 1964 and watching a TV show where some ugly aliens appear and, surprise surprise, they don’t want to conquer the world or kill all the humans. It’s downright progressive!

The Sensorites are watching you masturbate.

And such, we have “The Sensorites,” a story that paint aliens in shades of gray rather than just gray.

True, the episodic nature of the old Doctor Who show drags out the story to the point of breaking insanity, but the take on the Sensorites is really quite nice and sets this show apart from everything else in the era.

What’s more, it actually makes Susan useful even though it barely makes any sense to have her suddenly have telepathic powers. I know they explain it away, but damn…

Overall, despite the stretched out dullness of the story, I rather enjoyed “The Sensorites.” The Doctor’s personality has mellowed a great deal and it’s great to see the Doctor and his companions become a sort of impromptu family after all of the kidnapping and bickering.

True, it is hokey and campy and, as I’ve said before, it’s drawn out but for these old television shows and what they were, this is ahead of its time even though we’ve kind of eclipsed it.

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Fun Fact: The Ood from the new Doctor Who episodes are from the same system as the Sensorites. Where the Sensorites come from the Sensorsphere, the Ood come from the Oodsphere.

“It all started out as a mild curiosity in the junkyard, and now it’s turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure.”

Chilling Tales

The city of London seems to be filled with haunted houses, but perhaps the most infamous of them all was number 50 Berkley Square, an address that all of London knew to stay out of… lest they face the nameless horror within.

Movie Reviews

Though I don’t like war movies, Dunkirk is an incredible example of the genre. It shows that heroes don’t necessarily wear uniforms and that bravery comes in all shapes. It shows that not everything ends happily with heroes skipping off into the sunset when war is involved and that heart is the greatest weapon a human can have.

It’s not remarkable and it’s not terrible, it’s in that nondescript gray area inbetween which, to me, is worse than being bad. Almost twenty years after it was shat into theaters, people still talk about how bad Batman and Robin was or how bad Lost in Space was, but at least they’re remembered. In twenty years, no one will remember Valerian short of an occasional airing on FXX or SyFy… it will be resigned to the obscurity of the forgotten which is a terrible fate for what should have been art.

Television Reviews

Daniel Salazar is alive and he’s probably a little pissed off that everyone left him at the Mexican mansion and just assumed he was dead. Well, you know what happens if you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and umption because NO ONE makes an ass out of Daniel Goddamn Salazar! That’s right, Daniel Goddamn Salazar, the man who can walk out of a burning building and through the desert in the middle of a zombie apocalypse and through Mordor for good measure. You don’t mess with this guy. He will jack you up.